The Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security was founded in 2021 and is currently still in the start-up phase. It is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and is part of the Research Alliance Ruhr, which consists of a total of four research centers and one college.

 

The scientific focus is shaped by the Center's spokespersons, who have set the course for the first new professorships. The spokespersons are experts from social science, data science and cyber security, working together to cover the full spectrum of research challenges of trustworthy and privacy-aware technologies for society and industry.

Psychology & Social Sciences

We explore the (psychological) mechanisms of how humans interact with AI – focusing on how individuals understand the way that the system works and how they perceive, develop and maintain trust. Our work is empirically driven and encompasses qualitative and quantitative methods.

Portrait of Nicole Krämer

Psychology & Social Sciences

Prof. Dr. Nicole Krämer
University of Duisburg-Essen

Data Science & Statistical Learning

Our group aims to draw more conclusions from our data and better understand the processes and structures underlying data analytics. To accomplish this, we design methods and algorithms based on fundamental statistical concepts, including uncertainty quantification or causation.

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Mathematical Statistics and Applications in Industry

Prof. Markus Pauly
TU Dortmund

Cybersecurity & Privacy

Our group investigates the technical foundations of security and privacy in existing and future cyber systems. We analyze how information and data is secured in practical and widely-adopted applications and develop methods to make IT systems more secure, more usable and more trusted.
 

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Cybersecurity & Privacy

Prof. Dr. Christof Paar
University of Duisburg-Essen

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Our research covers data mining, machine learning, scalable algorithms and interactive exploration of high dimensional data, complex graphs, time series, and data streams. The research lays the foundation for autonomous and trustworthy systems.

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Data Science and Data Engineering

Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Müller
TU Dortmund

The next professorships will be sought in coordination with the existing professorships of the Center and the faculties, so that they complement each other ideally and many synergies can be exploited. This process, as well as all other decisions, is governed by the Center's steering committee, the scientific board. This board currently consists of the following elected PIs.

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Psychology & Social Sciences

Prof. Dr. Nicole Krämer

University of Duisburg-Essen
Forsthausweg 2
47057 Duisburg
Germany

Phone: +49 203 379 2482

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Data Science and Data Engineering

Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Müller

TU Dortmund
JvF25, Room 208

Phone: +49 231 755 7722

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Verification and Formal Guarantees of Machine Learning

Prof. Daniel Neider

TU Dortmund
JvF25, Room 212

Phone: +49 231 755 7802

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Computing and Society

Prof. Muhammad Bilal Zafar

Ruhr University Bochum
MC
Room 5.113
Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum
Germany

Phone: +49 234 32 15079

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The center is represented by its Director, Prof. Emmanuel Müller. The Center's employees are spread across the locations of the participating universities in the Ruhr region - but as these are very close to each other, regular joint meetings are held for scientific exchange. These regular meetings are particularly essential for the distinctive interdisciplinary approach - which is why great emphasis is also placed on the joint graduate school and other measures for interdisciplinary networking.

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